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Platzi Course Catalog Scraper
Scrapes the full Platzi course catalog (~1500+ courses across all categories). Returns structured data including title, teacher, rating, duration, level, syllabus topics, and certification status for every course. Covers Spanish and Portuguese tracks.
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Scrapes the full Platzi course catalog (~1500+ courses across all categories). Returns structured data for every course including title, teacher, rating, duration, level, syllabus topics, and certification status. Covers Spanish and Portuguese tracks.
What it scrapes
Platzi is the dominant Spanish-language tech education platform with over 1900 courses across categories like software development, AI, data science, design, marketing, English, and more. This actor retrieves the complete public course catalog from the sitemap and enriches each entry with detail-page data.
Fields returned per course:
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id | string | Course slug (unique identifier) |
title | string | Full course title |
slug | string | URL slug |
language | string | Language code (es or pt) |
level | string | Difficulty level (básico, intermedio, avanzado) |
duration_hours | number | Total course duration in hours |
teacher_name | string | Primary instructor name |
teacher_bio | string | Instructor short biography |
rating | number | Average rating (0–5 scale) |
rating_count | number | Number of student ratings |
syllabus_topics | string | Pipe-separated list of syllabus section titles |
description_text | string | Plain-text course description |
thumbnail_url | string | Course thumbnail image URL |
certification_offered | boolean | Always true (Platzi offers certificates for all catalog courses) |
is_free | boolean | Always false (subscription-only catalog) |
is_school_track | boolean | Whether part of an escuela (school track) |
school_name | string | Escuela name, when applicable |
student_count | number | Enrolled students (minimum 50 shown on public pages) |
source_url | string | Canonical course URL |
Fields not available without a paid Platzi account (skills, last_updated, subcategory) are returned as null.
Use cases
- Ed-tech competitive intelligence — track Platzi's full catalog composition, instructor roster, rating distribution, and content depth across categories
- US Hispanic-market affiliate sites — generate course listings with rich metadata for Spanish-speaking audiences
- Corporate L&D benchmarking — evaluate Platzi's coverage of specific technical skills vs. competitors
- Research — course-level analysis of Spanish-language tech education content, duration patterns, and rating spread
How to use
Basic run (default: 10 courses)
Run with default settings to scrape 10 courses and verify output. Set Max Items to 0 or leave empty to scrape the full catalog (~1552 courses).
Full catalog run
Set maxItems to a large number (e.g. 2000) or leave it empty. A full run over all ~1552 courses completes within 30–45 minutes.
Input parameters:
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
maxItems | integer | 10 | Maximum courses to scrape. Leave empty for the full catalog. |
Output example
Notes
- Course data is sourced from Platzi's public sitemap (
sitemap-cursos.xml) and server-rendered detail pages. No login required. student_countshows a minimum of 50 on public pages — actual enrollment is higher but only visible to logged-in users.categoryis returned asnullbecause Platzi's detail pages do not expose a reliable course-specific category field without authentication.- The actor uses Platzi's public sitemap as the discovery source. Courses not listed in the sitemap (draft/unlisted) are not included.
